Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 2006
Tornado Warning 38, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at Nov 29, 2006, 8:36 PM CST for Medina County, Texas. It was in force for 24 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 29, 2006, 8:36 PM CST (02:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 29, 2006, 9:00 PM CST
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Medina County, TX
The radar
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 154 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 545 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -93 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1291 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KEWX 300235 TOREWX TXC325-300300- /O.NEW.KEWX.TO.W.0038.061130T0236Z-061130T0300Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 836 PM CST WED NOV 29 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... MEDINA * UNTIL 900 PM CST * AT 830 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS HAVE DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER MEDINA COUNTY...OR ABOUT 11 MILES SOUTHEAST OF TARPLEY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE INDICATED COUNTY. IF YOU ARE IN A MOBILE HOME OR VEHICLE...GET OUT AND GO TO A STURDY SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY...BATHROOM...OR CLOSET. COVER YOURSELF WITH BLANKETS...PILLOWS OR EVEN A MATTRESS FOR BETTER PROTECTION. LAT...LON 2943 9938 2940 9915 2962 9905 2962 9931 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS54 KEWX 300245 SVSEWX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 845 PM CST WED NOV 29 2006 TXC325-300300- /O.CON.KEWX.TO.W.0038.000000T0000Z-061130T0300Z/ MEDINA TX- 845 PM CST WED NOV 29 2006 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CST FOR MEDINA COUNTY... AT 842 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED OVER MEDINA COUNTY...OR ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTH OF BANDERA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE INDICATED COUNTY. IF YOU ARE IN A MOBILE HOME OR VEHICLE...GET OUT AND GO TO A STURDY SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY...BATHROOM...OR CLOSET. COVER YOURSELF WITH BLANKETS...PILLOWS OR EVEN A MATTRESS FOR BETTER PROTECTION. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CST THURSDAY MORNING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. LAT...LON 2950 9924 2947 9913 2962 9898 2962 9923 $$
000 WWUS54 KEWX 300303 SVSEWX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 901 PM CST WED NOV 29 2006 TXC325-300311- /O.EXP.KEWX.TO.W.0038.000000T0000Z-061130T0300Z/ MEDINA TX- 901 PM CST WED NOV 29 2006 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR MEDINA COUNTY EXPIRED AT 900 PM CST... THE SEVERE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST INTO BANDERA COUNTY AND WEAKENED IN INTENSITY...HOWEVER A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CST THURSDAY MORNING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 29, 7:22 PM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | EWX | Bandera, Blanco, Burnet, Comal, Gillespie, Hays and 6 more | 17 hr |
| Nov 29, 8:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Medina | 53 min |
| Nov 29, 8:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera | 62 min |
| Nov 29, 9:17 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Bandera | 28 min |
| Nov 29, 9:33 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Medina | 27 min |
| Nov 29, 9:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar, Kendall | 53 min |
| Nov 29, 10:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Comal | 54 min |
| Nov 29, 11:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Comal | 65 min |
| Nov 30, 1:57 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Lee | 63 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.